Voice for dolls



A. A. GERLING ET AL VOICE FOR DoLLs I March 18 1924.. 1,487,232

Filed March 4. 1922 Patented Mar. 18, 1924.

[PATENT OFFICE.;

UNITED STATES ARTHUR A. GERLING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.,

A NnA GEORGE A. L. nu vIGNmU, or Norma` BERGEN, NEW JERSEY.

voren ronnoLLs.

Application med March 4, 1922. Serial No. 541,000.

l York, and North Bergen, Hudson County,A

State of New Jersey, respectively, and citizens of the United States of America, have invented certain new anduseful Improve- -ments in Voic'es 'todi-Doha ofwhich the folv lowing is a specification.L ,'y, l This invention relates to'iinprovements in sound producin other words, devices for simulatingthe word mama, or similar soundingwords. One of the objects of our invention is to provide a simple inexpensive but effective mechanism -to produce sound ora series of sounds to (as has been stated) simulate the word ma-ma. Y v

We will now proceed to describe our invention in detail, the novel features of which we will point out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, wherein Fig. 1 illustrates our improved device in elevation, the interrupters being indicated in raised position;

Fig. 2 illustrates our improved device` partly in elevation and partly in section; Fig. 3 is a bottom plan view of the device;

Fig. 4 is a detail view of the valve; and A Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional view illustrating the sound chamber and reed con 'tained therein.

comprises a container 7 for a bellows 8, which in this articular case operates longitudinally of t e casing to force air throu l1 an opening 9 in the head 10 thereof (Flgf 4.0 5) and also to draw air through said opening to operate a reed 11 carried bythe wall of a chamber 12, said reed being disposed in chamber 12 and opening into a supplemental chamber 13 having an opening 14- whichY is closed by a valve 15 at intervals. The valve 15 is carried b an arm 16, pivoted intermediate its en s to ,a bracket or brackets 17 carried by the head 18 of the supplemental chamber .13. The valve 15 is operated by spaced apart enlargements or rejections .2O and .2Oa on a rod 21, supported y the movable head 22 of bellows in order that the valve can be operated to close the opening 14 at intervals. r'

When the device is in use, 1t Will be posidevices fordolls, or in As herein arranged, our improved device ent is v l .tioned so vthat valve' 15 will open or move away from opening r14 by avit said valve being made preferably ofglead, but not necessarily so. When the casing is tilted so as to cause the bellowsto draw in` air, the rod 21 will bemoved tocause' projections -20 and 20a toV be positioned between the tail 19 of the valve-arm 16 andhe'ad 10 of the casing as indicated in Fig. 1. When the casing is tilted in the opposite` direction, the valve will open by glravity, as indicated-in Fig. 1. While the e ows'iscollapsing, projection 2() will contact with tail 19 of valve arm 16 and close the valve as indicated in Fig. 2,

'but as the rod 21 will continue to move down, .projection 20,'"will pass the tail iece 19, after which the, valve will open. en projection 20` contacts with tail-member 19,

. the valve will again close, but as projection 2()a will continue downward, it will, like projection 20, pass tail piece 19, whereupon the valve will again open. While the bellows is o 4ening, air drawn through reed 11 willv pro uce sound, but the valve 15 will interrupt said sound each time it closes; hence, a soundvthat would be ordinarily continuous will be divided into two sounds, simulating ma-ma. The op osite .end of the casing is provided wit a partition 7*1 which acts as a guide `forthe rod 21 and which is provided with an opening- 7" throu h which the air escapes that is acted u on y head 22.. The end of the casing is c osed with a preferably perforated cap 7. There will be enough slde play in rod 21 to permitthe projections 20, 20 to pass tailiece 19. Ifdesirable the tail-piece 19 ma he madeyieldable or resilient sothat' it wi 1 give slightly to allow the projections to ass. i P When the device is placed in the body of a doll it may be put in, in reversed position to that shown in the drawing, the operation beivigl the same.

at we desire 'to secure by Letters Pat- 1. In a sound producing device, a reed, a bellows to force air through said reed and having a movable member, an air chamber containino' the reed having an opening, a valve to c ose said opening arranged to open. by gravity, a tail piece on said valve, a rod carried b the movable member of 'the bellows, an projections carried by one end of the rod to successively engage saidv tail piece to close said valve at intervals during the passage of air through said reed, said projections bein spaced one from the other.

2. ln a soun producing device, a reed, a bellows to force air therethrough, said bellows having a movable member, an air chamber containing the reed having an opening, any arm. pivotally mounted adjacent said chamber, a valve at one end of the arm to close said opening, said valve being arranged to o en by gravit the opposite end of said arm eing yieldablb, and means operable by the movable member of the bellows to-contact with the yieldable portion of the arm to closesaid valve at intervals during the passage of air through said reed.

3. lin a sound `prodncingdevice, a reed, a

neemaea bellow/s` to force air therethrough, said belclose said opening, said valve being arf ranged to o en b ravity, the o oste end of said armi) beinyggyieldable, a ilid carried by the movable member of the'bellovvs, and spaced apart projections carried by the rod arranged to contact with the yieldable end of the valve arm to close said valve at intervals during the passage of air through said reed.

ARTHUR A. GERLING. GlERGlE A. L. DU VlIGNEAU. 

